Mummy,
Have you seen my knee?
Sore.
This feels really serious.
You keep telling me I scratched my knee when I fell on the driveway but I don’t think I believe you. I think I can remember falling, but I don’t remember crying. Surely I would’ve been howling in pain from such an injury.
Do you think my knee just spontaneously opened up? Does that happen? Oh my god that sounds deadly. Are all my organs going to start falling out?
Mummy, look at it.
Mummy, my knee.
Mummy, will this wound be here forever? It feels like it has been there forever and yet it is so new and different I find it hard to comprehend. How does this happen? My knee was fine and now it’s not. Why do our bodies change like this? How does my blood just come out of my body like this? This doesn’t feel normal AT ALL.
Mummy, please look at my knee.
Mummy, does Nanny know about my knee? I feel like we should start informing the family. Grandpa will be awfully upset. Make sure Nanny is holding his hand when he finds out.
Oh God, my poor baby cousin. She’s too young to lose someone in the family. This is not fair.
Mummy, can you please google ‘Gangrene’?
MUMMY!!!! QUICK!!!! LOOK!!!!
Mummy, I can’t help but notice you have a pimple on your cheek. And daddy has a mole on his chin. Why are we all so flawed? Is it genetic? This world is cruel. We are good people. We don’t deserve this.
Mummy, it has been days and you haven’t taken me to the emergency room. I believe that’s called neglect. I clearly need medical attention. Watching Greys Anatomy doesn’t make you a doctor. You are not qualified to tell me I don’t need stitches. This is a gaping wound. Stop calling it a scratch. Let’s leave it to the professionals, ok?
Although…. have they ever done an episode on staph? Did it look like this?
Mumumumum LOOOOK MY KNEEEEEEE!
Mummy, you need to put this on your blog. Ask your readers if they’ve ever seen anything this serious before. Ask them if their children have ever survived such a serious injury.
Mummy, have you seen my knee?
LOOK AT IT.
Mummy? Mummy? Mummy? Mummy? Mummy? Mummy? Mummy? Mummy? Mummy? Mummy? Mummy? Mummy? My knee Mummy. Have you seen it?
Thud xxx
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How’s the little one going? Still struggling on.
I’ve read about this condition…sometimes Dr google is correct you know…. 😉
You know what? The knee has almost completely healed. But never fear, we now have a scratch on the ankle! He’s so excited
Bandaids heal all in our house! Only problem is we go through them twice as fast – if Miss T get a deadly scratch then little brother Mr TT decides he’s on board too (can’t miss out on all the “fun”). Oh the joy of two kids under 5 working it in unison. I swear they’re ganging up on me.
Lol… My 7 year old girl has a sometimes sore ankle (seems to always be sore at grandma’s house.. where not surprisingly she gets more sympathy than at home), last time they stayed over nite, I came to pick them up and my 7 year old’s ankle was bandaged (nothing new here!) I look over, and her 2 year old sister is wearing a matching bandage on the same ankle.. apparently she needed one too!
Siblings! The young one just wants to *BE* the older one!
Lol! You had me at gangrene! I have one twin boy who is turning into a complete hypercondriac. I am constantly giving him the eye roll.
As a teacher I get this x23 after every break. Every little blister/scratch/mozzie bite/itch is a life threatening disaster. It’s amazing what an ice bag is able to cure 🙂
Oh goodness.. my 7 year old is like that.. if you’re at her school she’d probably be 22 of those 23 complaints :\
Drives me mental.. she was on first name basis with the (amazingly lovely, tolerant and patient) administration ladies in PREP!… She’s in year 2 now and I still get .. “Oh , yeah we know her, she’s always so lovely and polite when she visits us, almost daily… how is she today?”
My husband now tells her to get a cup of concrete to harden up (he grew up with only 2 brothers, we have 2 girls.. I think the universe thinks it’s funny!)
My two girls frequently can’t sleep due to the PAIN of minute scratches accumulated over lifetime. Even injuries months old they require a magnifying glass to identify on the skin, can keep a child awake and in tears for hours. It is PAINFUL being a child. Painful. x
Ha! I have to put cream on deadly wounds long after they’ve healed. I’m talking weeks ‘cos ya know, it’s still so bad.
Miss 2 fell off the back porch (about 30 cm high) and scraped her knee and we heard about it for 2 weeks. Only in 2 year old language, it morphed from “Mummy, I fell off! Hurt my KNEE!” to “Mummy my knee FELL OFF!!”
haha! And there I was thinking it was just my little one who was so dramatic with these things!
Apparently it’s a thing! My nephew was always very fond of his bumps and scratches and it appears Thud takes after him. They all just love pointing them out and getting all the attention, don’t they?
Two words. Mosquito bites. Lord above, it’s instantly a week from hell. And he gets them A LOT. My two-year-old daughter now asks for ‘ca-lotion’ because she’s so used to my son demanding I swab his mozzie bites with calamine lotion…
That’s adorable! A calamine lotion addiction! Could be worse 😉
What I find so funny (other than your post which is very funny) is how our little guy (who is now 5) can have the smallest cut with a droplet of blood and find in painful/serious/life-threatening, yet can have a fairly heavy cold and actually soldier on. He may not grow up to be a man. The tactic I’ve tried (with some success) is just to laugh off the fall/scrape in the first instance and hope the stops it turning into a catastrophe.
Hahaha, funny little one. Maybe it’s because the scratch is visible, so he can draw attention to it and you can all discuss the gaping wound. But you can’t see a cold, so what can you draw attention to?
Look out for that moment he discovers band aids. They LOVE them. Mine tearfully asks for a band aid every time she bumps herself. Even if it’s on her face. She doesn’t even care that we’ve run out of the Disney Princess ones, she will settle for the ugly brown ones. Which is lucky.
I tried to put a bandaid on it but he ripped it off immediately because he wanted to see his scratch. He likes to touch it and talk about it and check on it every four minutes. Strange kid.
Get a bandaid on that (and heal it miraculously) STAT!!
He won’t let me put a bandaid on it, because then he can’t see it. He just wants to look at it all day long. Lovingly. Weirdo.
Ah bless him. It makes me laugh. My almost 2-year-old is like a little tank, collecting cuts and bruises like they’re going out of fashion and it never seems to bother him. He’s a boy though so I guess he’ll grow out of that!
Well, the funny thing is that Thud is just like that. He never gets upset by bumps and bruises, but he has become insanely obsessed with this little scratch. It’s like he keeps checking to see if it’s still there. He’s just loving the attention (the attention that he is DEMANDING). It’s actually very very funny.
I think this is what the hubster must have been like when he was a wee lad! This my friend is just the beginning. Wait til he gets older and discovers man flu. You really will never hear the end of it!
Hopefully by the time he is a full-blown man baby, he will be some other woman’s problem!!
So cute!
My partner used to be friends with a woman whose mum was quite possibly the most dense person on earth. One day she showed him a green mark on her wrist from cheap jewellery and asked what it was. He convinced her it was African wrist rot and her hand was going to drop off any day. She was convinced for about a week, until he finally told her he was joking!
I don’t know whether to laugh or to be really concerned for this woman :/
It does look pretty serious… maybe time to start discussing amputation (that was always my dads answer to any injury, big or small!)
It’s probably heading that way…
Haha that’s mine also! I always tell them ok let’s cut it properly. When I’m really in a Dexter mood I can take out one my fancy kitchen knife. Haha they stop immediatly! xx
Oh Cathy, I LOVE Dexter!!
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A very nice packet of Cars band-aid strips or Mickey Mouse….also in case girls come to visit….Dora or Coles Girl medi strips…(very pink)….does absolute wonders….something to show everyone…I am wounded and look how much I am loved…aint it grand….*G*….
After 2 of my own …and 20 years of foster kiddies…can guarantee it works…every time.
But Maeve!!! If there was bandaid on it, we wouldn’t be able to see the huge gaping wound!!! And we must see the huge gaping wound. It’s very important that we all see it. ALL DAY LONG.
LMAO yep nailed it – and this is only just the beginning. lol Shove over and I will pour you a drink. i think you are going to need it 😉 xx
We were in the car today and he had called out “Mummy! Knee!” about 40 times in the space of 5 minutes (no exaggeration. It was on repeat) and I just cracked up laughing. Really hard, hysterical laughing because it was so ridiculous. Is this my life now? Trying to drive and at the same time, having to look back every 12 seconds to appreciate the massive gash on my son’s knee? He’s so bloody impressed with it.
It has been confirmed – you have a boy. Just wait till he’s old enough for Man Flu!
xxxx
Can’t wait… At least with man flu he won’t be able to talk, right?
Oh poor Thud. I hope they can manage to save the leg.
It’s not looking good. It’s probably the end of the road for the old leg.
The toddler scratchor splinter in the finger is the earliest form of man flu. My Tiny Dictator feels like his arm is being amputated when he has a small microscopic splinter.
Hahahaha!! He’s actually been pretty upbeat about it. He’s not pretending like it hurts or anything. He’s just SO fascinated with it. He think’s it’s groundbreaking stuff. Every few minutes he’ll look down and it’s like the first time all over again “HOLY SHIT MUM!! What happened to my knee? Have you seen this? SCRATCH ON KNEE!!!” I can’t stop laughing at him and his excitement over the scratch. He feels he needs all the attention because of the scratch.
Oh yes, the pain. Juvenile man illness. It’s prevalent at my house too. x
He’s certainly impressed with his war wound. He was pretty happy I was taking photos of it. I should film him talking about it. It’s so so funny.